Alex Froment

we've just published a report with the future laboratory around our vision of the future of connectivity. of the first conclusions that there's really an explosion in connectivity that is currently happening and will continue in the next couple of years. course it is driven by both the proliferation of hardware we just talked about but also by the use cases and applications that are using our network and as we move increasingly into AR and VR there will be a lot of demand on our networks both from a speed a capacity and a latency so I think really as soon as you think about AR VR really need 5G at scale really what say more from the the connectivity perspective but we already also see some…

as Vodafone we realize that hardware and technical hardware is really predominant nowadays so in today's situation in UK as an example every individual has about six connected device a household is probably more around a 20 and we think that's going to continue growing and growing well that's a real challenge for the planet. last year in 2021 we had announced an initiative called Echo Rating which was about helping consumers make the right choice by identifying those smartphones that have the highest would say reusability capability was last year year in 22 the Vodafone is rolling out a suite of services to help consumers prolong the life of their hardware so from device financing insurance…

So connectivity has played a really important role and I think we've realized that this importance of digital inclusion is really key for Europe going forward and so that's definitely a theme that we are focusing on as a company also during the the Covid crisis I think the climate challenge has really risen in everybody's conscious whether it's consumers or businesses governments definitely so this is really a theme that we have chosen to focus on this year at MWC and so if I reflect a bit on our network our technology what can we do? first as an industry and as Vodafone we need to lead by example means really making sure that we are doing everything we can in our own right so at Vodafone f…

first of all we're delighted to be back physically at MWC where really the conversations are going to be shaping the future of our industry. Vodafone typically likes at MWC to show a glimpse of the technology of the future but this year we wanted to focus on one fundamental crisis that we're all facing the climate crisis and that's why we wanted our voice to be heard and to lead the industry in telling that we need to enable a much more sustainable society so Planet is at the heart of our MWC presence.